Player Properties Solution

Hey, there. 0:00 Welcome back. 0:00 What did you come up with? 0:01 Hopefully you found the brainstorming exercise useful. 0:03 As we go through the Player properties we'll be using for this app, 0:05 it takes some time to compare and contrast our solutions. 0:09 And keep in mind, when I built this project, I rewrote my classes and 0:12 constructor methods several times. 0:15 You're seeing the final outcome of a long process here. 0:17 Please remember that there were a ton of iterations 0:21 before this that you're not seeing. 0:23 Okay, I've got my Player class decoration here, in a file called Player.js. 0:25 Does your syntax for the class decoration match what you see on screen? 0:31 If not, pause the video here and adjust your code. 0:35 Inside our Player class, we'll add an empty constructor method together and 0:38 then chat about the properties that we'll be using. 0:42 If you recall from previous course work on OOJS, 0:45 constructor methods go inside the class declaration. 0:48 These are the factory for your class. 0:51 Where properties are assigned to a new object of that class type. 0:53 To write one, don't forget that you use the lower case keyword, constructor. 0:58 Now, as for our properties, the first property will be name. 1:05 Players should also have a unique id. 1:12 An id property could probably be used a few ways, but 1:14 we'll be using it to help identify which player the tokens belong to. 1:17 You'll see that in upcoming steps. 1:22 The players will also have a color property. 1:24 This way when we render the tokens in HTML, 1:27 we will be able to tell the players tokens apart. 1:30 The values for each of these properties will be passed in as arguments when we 1:33 instantiate the two player objects. 1:37 We'll get to that later, but for now, let's be sure to add those parameters Now, 1:39 there should also be a way to track of whether or not it's a given player's turn. 1:47 Add a property called active, which will hold the boolean value. 1:51 In our argument list, we'll give active a default value of false. 1:55 This way, when the Player object is instantiated, 1:59 it can be assumed that it's not their turn unless otherwise explicitly stated. 2:02 The final property, tokens, will hold an array of that player's tokens. 2:07 We'll create a method to generate these tokens in a future step. 2:11 So for now, we'll set the tokens property to an empty array. 2:15 We won't be passing an argument in for this property. 2:18 Okay, so to review, we've added the following properties to our Player class. 2:21 name, id, color, active and tokens. 2:26 Most of the values for 2:31 this properties will be passed in when the player objects are created. 2:32 The exception to this is the tokens property. 2:36 In a future step, we'll be writing a method inside this class that 2:39 creates the token objects for us. 2:43 So for now, we've just set this property to an empty array. 2:45 Now that we've finished the Player constructor method and 2:49 added all of the properties, let's move on and start brainstorming the properties for 2:51 the token object. 2:56